Ray was the best R&B performer in my lifetime. He could perform a song unlike any other artist. I had the good fortune to see him in a live performance many years ago.
You could tell how much old Ray loved singing a patriotic song in Yankee Stadium shortly after the goat fuckers knocked the Twin Towers down. I don't think he would approve of what's going on now. He knew that even a blind black man could make it in New York he could make it to the top of the hill anywhere.
So I must have missed it @Bengal B , what did Ray get hit with? A hotdog wrapper? Was it the hotdog? A baseball? I mean it would be pretty easy to hit Ray Charles with just about anything beings he can't see. Apparently I can't either because I can't figure out what hit him.